Rebecca Marshall FarnbachSpecial to Valley NewsFor over a hundred years, residents viewed with pride a granite rock formation at what is now the northeast corner of Los Alamos and Briggs Roads in French Valley and recognized its significance as a treasured landmark. Encountering the rock gave a warm “I am here now” feeling of time and place that gave a touchstone to the past where long-ago residents ground acorns and pioneers carved their names and initials. Children climbed the rock and traced the etched markings with their fingers and imagined the people who had viewed the rock long ago and climbed it as they had.Jeffery Harmon, President
